casoneanddennisknealecoming up next and -- and everything else. [talking over each other] connell: one of the most successful business people of all time. let's go to break and come back with more markets now. dennis: hello, i am dennis kneale. cheryl: i am cheryl casone. stunning news, the big drop in the unemployment rate under 8%. we have reaction from wall street, the campaign trail and of course main street. dennis: ge jack welch on twitter send the jobs numbers don't add up and he ties it to the rough performance in the debate. cheryl: you won't leave how much california drivers are paying to fill up their tanks. that and more coming up in the west coast minute. top of the hour, stocks every 15 minutes, we have nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. stocks are heading higher, wall street reacted to the jobs numbers, what is it saying? nicole: it is pretty unbelievable. anybody who heard these jobs numbers were taken aback, a huge surprise to the upside. it really set the tone for today, move things to the upside and the dow with the small move of 56 p

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's white house correspondentstevendennis. whatis your opinion? >> well, i think it's definitely something that gives mitt romney's campaign new life. coming into this debate, his campaign was really reeling from several disastrous weeks. this 47% video. if you look at the polling, people thought that -- especially in the swing states like ohio that he was out for the rich, that he was -- these attacks that the president has been putting on the r, nonstop in these swing states that he's going to raise taxes onthe middle class and give to the wealthy had been hitting and have been hurting him badly combined with that video. so he came out punching and he came out trying to puncture that caricature, running to the middle on a lot of issues and on taxes really trying to hammer home this idea that he's not going to cut taxes for the rich, that he's going to cut taxes for the middle class, and the problem for him still that he hasn't yet shown how he can pay for it. the president tried to sort of puncture that a little bit, but i think the president just appeared tired and looked down

and a fox news contributor. ron bonjean, former communications director to formerspeakerdennishastert.welcome to both of you. julie, to you first, you said the president's performance was not great. >> right. jon: peggy noonan said not only did governor romney win handily, that it will reverberate throughout the election cycle, do you agree? >> i don't know. it remains to be seen. i will be the first to say the president was abysmal. he was not truly great. he was terrible. one debate does not a presidential campaign make. in factualer mondale in 1984 spanked ronald reagan and reagan came back to win 49 of 50 states. probably would have won the 50th had mondale not won his home state of minnesota. you can't look at one debate training the trajectory. i'm not as confident romney will make up in the swing states what he needs to make up to beat the president in one debate especially with more debates coming. we don't know. at end of the day we have really good jobs report despite republicans are saying. it shows progress and may not be as quick as people like. nevertheless moving in th

cleaning up accident 50450 at the bw parkway. northboundondenny, that'swhere we had utility work on the right side of the road, southbound side definitely below speed as you continue to work your way from 50 towards the d.c. line at 11 miles an hour. new wreck reported on route 4, follow police direction to get through. if you're traveling 109, accident activity reported at barnesville road, fire and rescue on the scene. overall the trip from 85 out to montrose road, over an hour and a half commute right now, southbound along 270. again, that's with all lanes open, folks. heavy, slow and steady out here. here's the live shot in virginia, three 95 from the pentagon to the 14th street bridge. that's a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >>> here comes teddy, accompanied by the fanatic, or at least a fascimile thereof. it is history. >> yay, teddy wins! >> and the fans go wild. yes, it's finally happened, nats fans, teddy finally won the president's race at nats park after 538 consecutive losses, and the crowd went wild, and, ladies and gentlemen, we are honored to have teddy with